From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 03:57:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A558A16A401 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:57:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sys@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286F143D45 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:57:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sys@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 26015 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2006 13:57:33 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO localhost) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Apr 2006 13:57:33 +1000 Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:57:30 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060413135730.557ab663@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060410215633.GA2483@soaustin.net> References: <20060405200341.GD14126@math.jussieu.fr> <20060405200727.GA28371@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060405201500.GE14126@math.jussieu.fr> <20060405211154.GA30089@soaustin.net> <20060410215633.GA2483@soaustin.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Albert Shih Subject: Re: Disappointed X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:57:35 -0000 On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:56:33 -0500 linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote: > Otherwise, you are going to get "we will do our best to provide a system, > for free, that works as well as possible for as many people as possible. > Good luck and help us to fix the inevitable bugs." Other than the part about "for free" and "help us fix the inevitable bugs", the rest of this section, IMHO, applies perfectly to most software, in particular to Washington state originated operating systems. I don't see what is particularly wrong with that approach...but if you have a closed source system, the minorities that WANT a difference (be it bug fixed, feature, you name it) would have almost no way to make those differences a reality. Mr. Shih, if you believe that FreeBSD is not for you, please go ahead and use something else. It is *YOUR* system we are talking about after all :) btw, WHY did you try FreeBSD to begin with? just curious :) regards, Beto --